JALANDHAR: In the Dalit-dominated Adampur assembly constituency reserved for scheduled caste candidates, both the Congress and Shiromani Akali Dal have opted for candidates with Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) background. Congress candidate Satnam Singh Kainth remained BSP MLA from Banga assembly constituency in 1992. He left BSP and contested, and won ...

RUPNAGAR: The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has called for withdrawing cases registered against the Dalits during violence in Punjab after the murder of Dera Sachkhand Ballan Sant Rama Nand in Austrian capital Vienna. Narinder Kashyap, BSP national general secretary, and party's Punjab unit president, Avtar Singh Karimpuri, on Monday addressed the ...

JALANDHAR: The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) held a protest rally against the UPA government and the ruling SAD-BJP combine, holding both of them responsible for the rise in prices of essential commodities and fuel. Rajya Sabha member and J&K, Chandigarh and Punjab party affairs in-charge Narinder Kashyap, RS member and state ...

NAKODAR: Eleven members of the Nagar Council on Monday gave a notice to move a no-confidence motion against President Gurbachan Singh Dhiman. It has been signed by two councillors of the ruling combine, two of Bahujan Samaj Party' (BSP) and seven of Congress, besides Nakodar MLA A.S. Samra. The dissident SAD councillor ...

Nominees short of support, party workers prepare for exodus, switching camps PANCHKULA: The Congress in Panchkula is split over fielding people from out­ side in the Panchkula and Kalka Assembly elections and an exodus from the party is imminent. Some Congress leaders in Panchkula have already come out in open against the ...